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Purple background with green stars and repeated black text 'steph' in pixelated font.

Purple background with green stars and repeated black text 'steph' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered star pattern
  • central text placement

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background overlaid with multiple bright green five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'steph' appear in bold, pixelated black lowercase letters; two are positioned near the top center and two near the bottom center. The text is rendered with jagged edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics from early 2000s instant messaging platforms. Stars are scattered across the background without a fixed pattern.

Description

  • Purple background with green stars and repeated black text 'steph' in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple green steph stars
  • pixelated steph text
  • green star background
  • four steph texts

Visible Text

  • steph

Visually Supported Entities

  • steph

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • green stars
  • 'steph' text
  • pixelated font
  • four instances
  • jagged letter edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008010909083085141635
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e9ee133b95b98c3823ac354b4e1c400b8e51c0569ad4b39e54c417ef5ab60cc9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
e9ee133b95b98c38
SHA-256
e9ee133b95b98c3823ac354b4e1c400b8e51c0569ad4b39e54c417ef5ab60cc9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089946

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with green stars and repeated black text 'steph' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:58 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,470 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 570

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • five pointed stars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text steph (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • scattered star pattern
  • central text placement

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background overlaid with multiple bright green five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'steph' appear in bold, pixelated black lowercase letters; two are positioned near the top center and two near the bottom center. The text is rendered with jagged edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics from early 2000s instant messaging platforms. Stars are scattered across the background without a fixed pattern.

Description

  • Purple background with green stars and repeated black text 'steph' in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple green steph stars
  • pixelated steph text
  • green star background
  • four steph texts

Objects

  • five-pointed stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • text 'steph'
  • stars

Visible Text

  • steph

Visually Supported Entities

  • steph

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • green stars
  • 'steph' text
  • pixelated font
  • four instances
  • jagged letter edges
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
2008010909083085141635
Archive entry
2008010909083085141635.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008010909083085141635.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008010909083085141635.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016